Marc Chagall "The Red Bird" Art Print, Double Matted Vintage Decor

This is a 16 x 20 inch professionally double-matted vintage print, "DU MAUVAIS SUJETS VIII," which is sometimes also known as “The Red Bird.” The original etching was created by Marc Chagall in 1958. This matted vintage print will arrive to you ready to place into your standard-sized, 16 x 20 inch frame. The photos I’ve taken show how your print looks in the double mat, as it will arrive to you, and an example of how your matted print will look framed. The print is matted with quality, USA made mat board. It is attached with archival polypropylene mounting corners to quality foam board. The mat is hinged with linen hinging tape. DU MAUVAIS SUJETS VIII. A mysterious red bird dominates a terrace that cuts off any view of the middle ground and serves – in combination with the open window – both to unite and to separate the shallow “inner” space and the deep “outer” space of the moon and the distant city. CONDITION: The print is in excellent vintage condition. The colors are deep, rich and vibrant. No issues to note. This is an original vintage book page print from a 1968 first edition book, “The World of Marc Chagall,” published by Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York. It is printed on semi-gloss paper. This is an authentic 50 year-old print, not a reprint or reproduction. Great for home or office decor! • Mat dimensions: Width, 16 inches x Length, 20 inches; 40.6 cm x 50.8 cm • Print dimensions: Width, 9 ½ inches x Length, 13 inches • Image dimensions: Width, 7 ¾ inches x Length, 10 ¾ inches • Mat colors: Antique White (outer) and Purple (inner) Print is in great vintage condition. You will be receiving the original 1968 book page, which is now almost 50 years old. Marc Zakharovich Chagall born Moishe Zakharovich Shagalov; (1887 – 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra. Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922. He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." "When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is." More photos of this matted print are available and can be shared upon request. Contact me with any questions. Thank you for visiting RetroRitaGallery. I hope you will save me to your favorites and check back with me. *Frame and accessories shown in photos are for inspiration only.